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Thunderstorm over Essen

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For this picture I went up to a near hill with my backpack and umbrella while lightnings and rain were still near.

I hoped to take lightning pictures after the thunderstorm gone by. I was careful enough to wait for a free sky above it before I went up.

 

Because of too much evening daylight I was not able to make long exposures, so I tried some hundred pictures with exposure of only half a second.

 

When I hit a lightning, I made a row of different exposures for HDRI immediately after that for combining them.

 

It took over an hour to have the luck of hitting this, but I think it was worth the effort. The Thunderstorm is over Essen, neighbour of my town Gelsenkirchen.

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Uploaded on August 25, 2007
Taken on August 25, 2007